The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-22
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PENNSYLVANIA mined 81, l36, ,631
tons of anthracite coal last year

PENNSYLVANIA mined 32.l36 ,63a
,ons of anthracite coal last year
MESSENGER CHIEF, the noted stall .
lion, is dead He was valued at $780,
DOC, 900.
The Republican National Conven-
tion will be held in Chicago, and will
meet June 10Th. II
Mr.. GLADSTONE will celebrate the
ninth anniversary OF his birth
on Thursday, the Goth insl.
MOsT of the Anarchists has been
hanged. This sentence is not gram
maticaE but it ought to be.-lNash'
Vile American.
IT ia not the cloven foot, but the
cloyen breath, that gives man away
after he has beeu out to see another
mani Picayune,
CHAs. KING. Of Middleton. Mass
claims to have 500 descendants. he Is
lO7 years of age, and says he has been
attended but twice during his life BY
doctors.
The first Presidents message teie |
xraphed West was delivered by James
K. Polk, It required forty eight hours
to perform the task. Now a message
of equal length is transmitted in three
hours.
GOVERNOR BoDwFLL, of Maine, died
at his home in Hellowell, that state,
on the morning of the 18th inst, OF
congestion of the lungs.
PROTECTION is convenient idiom
as applying to the laboring masses,
which the upselfish manufacturer 1s
wont to use in discussing the mutual
interests of capital and labor.
WooL GROWERS need not lose any
sleep over an equable tariff of custom
duties. Under the Democratic tariff
before the war, wool commanded bet
ter prices than since under the delu
sive Republican monopoly tariff.
Col. LOREN ANDREWS, President OF
Kenyon College, Ohio, is given the
credit Of being the first Ohio volunteer
in the war for the Union. The honor
of being second is given to Major A. ..
Mitchell, of Columbus, Ohio.
ABOUT So, 900 has been raised for the
Hendricks monument at Indianapolis
and So 900 more is wanted. Mr.. w.
w. Corcoran gave the largest coatri-
button, $500; Potter Palmer gave 500,
President Cleveland, 500.
GROVER .CLBvELAND's administra-
tion has reclaimed 30,000,0 600 acres of
land given to corporate monopolies by
its Republican predecessors. which is
now placed on the books subject to
settlement by the people, whose inner
itance it is.
OF the production of cotton in Kan
sas, the Meade Center Press-DemOcrat
says: I" Over thirty car loads of cotton
have been raised this season in the
vicinity of Notia, Chautauqua county,
and eight car loads of the crop were
shipped East during the past week
inequality of the crop was excellent" /"
A WASHINGTON dispatch says the
Republican members of the old ways
and means committee are preparing a
substitute for any Democratic tariff
bill, but they find quite q diversity
among their own members. AS to
sugar, they are quite at sea. On to.
bacco tax abolition there is no disa
greement.
THREE leading Republican papers
the st. Paul Pioneer Press, Chicago
Tribune and New York Commercial
Advertiser, have come out sausrely In
support of President Cleveland's mes.
sage. Besides there are scores of other
Republican papers, also widely known
that have taken a similar position
Il GPlain Dealer.
N. Y. TIMES: The lists of Trusts
built up under the shadow of the tariff
barrier, is long one. Those who have
made these combines" " should see
that thusly they have given new force
to the arguments which call for just
reduction of tariff rates, and have
placed new weapons in the hands oil
revenue reformers.
CIRCUIT Court at Hillsboro decided
that whisky. obtained on physician's
prescriptions. in local option towns
must not necessarily be purchased o.
druggists, but that saioonists could fiji
such prescriptions. Confinipg it te
druggists. the court said, would be up
holding an unlawful monopoly This
decision practically sannuls the Local
option feature of the Dow law. 1t will
be carried to the Supreme Court.
The report of State Auditor Kiese
wetter shows that the finances of the
State are in bad way, and there i.
nothing partisan in the report cit her
It deals with cold, hard facts. The
State expenses are running ahead o
the current revenue and will continue
to do so until the revenue is increased
from some source. In providing means
to keep the State from bankruptcy the
legislature will have serious problem
on its hands.-[Plsin Dealer.
THE State Treasury Of Ohio Is bank
rupt, and is drawing on County Treas
urers In advance of regular settlement
to pay current expenses. The Legis
lature will be obliged to increase the
tax levy, and in the payment of your
taxes the coming year, do not fail to
return thanks to the Republican party
for their vital hold upon your pocket
book in the cancellation of obligations
imposed by extravagance and reckless
legislation.